Word: graved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Liberals of the country seem deeply committed this year to nothing quite so much as to their own destruction. (Anihilation is perhaps the better term). One wonders whether the so-called "liberal" takes gratification from the certainty that his political adversaries will go to the grave with...
...stage and Bette Davis and Leif Erickson act it out, Sandburg's world remains dramatically mild, a little ostentatiously benign, its warm iron-kettle juices mingling the flavor of sage and ham. At its best, an evening whose themes move from the cradle to the grave is both folkish and individual. Often it is less folkish than folksy, and at its worst it is cute enough to make J. M. Barrie seem austere. Nor do Corwin's comments help: instead of stressing the pungent and appealing in Sandburg, he hails him for leaving "obscurantism to the esthetes...
...facts: in 1958, under Republican (and Protestant) Governor C. William O'Neill, Ohio Attorney General William B. Saxbe was asked to rule whether school boards could employ nuns to ease a grave teacher shortage. He ruled that they could indeed hire nuns (as they have been doing for 39 years), allow them to wear habits in class. Said Democratic (and Catholic) Governor Mike DiSalle, demanding an apology from Peale: "This matter has never been before...
...many screeching women and teenagers rushed up to kiss the returning heroes and pelt them with garlands of laurel that Archbishop Makarios, Cyprus' new President, hastily revamped a prepared speech to remind his people that Cyprus still faces grave economic and political problems. Added Makarios pointedly: the best thing EOKA men could do now would be to lay down their Sten guns and get to work...
...Grave sins cited by German second-graders most often included throwing away food or money or "making fun of God." But one moppet, asked to describe a small sin, disconcertingly replied, "Playing cowboy and taking Father's rifle and saying there's no bullet in it but there is and you shoot somebody dead...